On Wednesday, Jun. 24, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced a series of personnel changes at the New York City Police Department. In the statement, the announcements were described as key to positioning the agency for 21st century policing, by strengthening the bonds between officers and residents.

Chief Jeffrey B. Maddrey, the longtime chief of the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, is being promoted to the position of chief of community affairs at a moment of historic importance in police-community relations. At the same time, Shea announced that Chief Nilda Irizarry Hofmann would be designated chief of transportation, to continue the stewardship over a series of ongoing innovations for the safe and secure movement of all New Yorkers around our city.

Assistant Chief Judith R. Harrison, who has served as the commanding officer of the department’s Special Victims Division, and has overseen integral victim-centered improvements there, will be succeeding Maddrey as the leader of the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Brooklyn North.

“Chief Maddrey has served the NYPD and the city amid one of the most challenging moment’s in our history,” Shea said. “His voice, along with the leadership of Chief Hofmann and Chief Harrison, is needed now in our continuing effort to move the department forward and best serve New Yorkers and elevate our profession.”

Maddrey joined the New York City Police Department in April 1991, and began his career on patrol in the 110th precinct. He has also served in the 60th, 67th, 70th, 72nd, 73rd, 75th and 77th precincts, the Brooklyn South Task Force, Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, and Patrol Borough Brooklyn North. He was promoted to sergeant in February 1998, lieutenant in March 2001, captain in May 2003; deputy inspector in December 2006, inspector in November 2008, deputy chief in December 2011, and assistant chief in March 2015.

Maddrey has also commanded Housing Borough Brooklyn, the Brooklyn South Task Force, and the 73rd and 75th precincts. He served as Executive Officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, the 60th, 70th and 72nd precincts.

Maddrey holds a Master of Science degree in human services leadership from St. Joseph’s College, and a Bachelor of Science degree in criminology from John Jay College. He is also a 2007 graduate of the Police Management Institute at Columbia University.

“In light of everything we are dealing with in our Brooklyn communities, I wholeheartedly believe that Chief Maddrey is someone who doesn’t just represent the department, but he also represents the people he serves,” said Steven Eugene Carter, senior pastor of Mount Ararat Church in Brooklyn. “Not only does he have heart, his passion for the community is seen through his service to the community. He is someone who renders his profession and his passion to residents of all generations. He is a great man.”

Irizarry Hofmann began her career with the New York City Police Department as a police administrative aide, assigned to Detective Borough Bronx in October 1987.  She was sworn in as a police officer in October 1990, and began her career on patrol in the 43rd precinct.  She also served in the 23rd, 25th, 42nd, 44th and 52nd precincts, Patrol Borough Bronx, and the Bronx Task Force. She was promoted to sergeant in April 1998, lieutenant in December 2003, captain in April 2008, deputy inspector in September 2011, inspector in October 2013, deputy chief in June 2018, and chief of community affairs in January 2018.

Irizarry Hofmann also commanded the 25th and 52nd precincts. She also served as executive officer of the Risk Management Bureau and the 42nd precinct. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College, and is a 2013 graduate of the Police Management Institute at Columbia University.

Harrison joined the New York City Police Department in April 1997, and began her career on patrol in the 103rd precinct. She also served in the 102nd, 104th, 109th, 112th and 115th precincts, Patrol Borough Queens North, the Police Academy, and the Special Victims Division. She was promoted to sergeant in September 2002, lieutenant in June 2006, captain in January 2013, deputy inspector in March 2015, inspector in March 2017, and deputy chief in July 2018.

As commanding officer of special victims division, a position she was appointed to in November 2018, Harrison oversaw reforms to make the division more victim-centered with a relentless focus on bringing justice to brave survivors.

She also commanded the 109th and 112th precincts, and served as Executive Officer of the 115th precinct. Harrison has had patrol experience in every rank. As a precinct executive (2013-2018), she was intimately involved with every crime that was reported to the precinct from commencement to conclusion.

Harrison is the fourth African American woman in department history to rise to the rank of assistant chief, following Kim Royster, Donna Jones and Juanita Holmes. Harrison earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from John Jay College in 2018.

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